Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super in review – the more reasonable RTX 2080 in small and cheaper?

1 - Einführung und Übersicht 2 - Tear Down: Platine und Kühler 3 - The Division 2 4 - F1 2019 5 - Far Cry 5 6 - GTA V 7 - Metro Exodus 8 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9 - Total War: Three Kingdoms 10 - World War Z 11 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail 12 - Temperatur, Takt, Infrarot 13 - Lüfter und Lautstärke 14 - Zusammenfassung

Introduction

Without going into internals too much, this time I have to start with the fact that this article was written exclusively here in Germany in my laboratory and no longer in the usual cooperation with my esteemed US colleague Chris Angelini, who has been the most important member for 10 years. gaming benchmarks and often parts of the theory. Why this long-standing and very successful cooperation was unilaterally terminated so shortly before the launch and administratively also very strictly prevented, one can guess, but I will not comment further.

There are things that are as they are and therefore do not belong in the public domain. Nevertheless, i would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks once again to my esteemed colleague, because it was a very interesting and very effective cooperation for all those involved.

When such things appear unannounced, unplanned and on the verge of a very high-heeled launch date, it not only confuses the schedules, but in a way you have to improvise before you find a new basis. In today's two launch articles, of course, all my shares are in the usual form and detail, only with the benchmarks I had to limit myself a bit this time with the number (not the detail). But there are also the colleagues of the other media with countless launch articles, so that in the end no one has to die stupidly.

This will be about concentrating on my core competencies now and in the future, the rest will come from itself anyway. The laboratory will be expanded again in the next days and weeks, so that for the future a self-sufficient work will not be a burden, but a pleasure. This also applies to the envisaged cooperation with my French colleagues, with whom I am almost perfectly involved. Europe first also goes, which is only once on the margins

Quo Vadis RTX 2070?

The fact that the RTX 2070 is being upgraded is one thing, because this card hasnot sold so badly. The other thing is the GeForce RTX 2070 Super, which wants to scratch the RTX 2080, which in turn, according to the distributors and the board partner, does not really want to be sold – at least as far as the expected quantities are concerned. Price and performance are only one facet, because this card somehow lacked the target group. For Ultra-HD usually too slow and for QHD often far too expensive, because there is already a GeForce RTX 2070 can tidy up properly.

The new S(uper) class could also benefit from ray tracing once there are enough games for the respective target groups. Then QHD also goes with radiation tracking and in just as affordable for the masses. Whether this GeForce RTX 2070 Super can still fill the gap in the market that an RTX 2080 often in vain was aiming for – you'll have to see. The will is somehow there, only the buyer has to play along. Because in the end it is nothing more than an RTX 2070 Ti, which was not allowed to be called that.

The TU104-410 of the GeForce RTX 2070 Super

The TU104-410 of the GeForce RTX 2070 Super is reduced to 2560 CUDA cores, 320 tensor cores, 40 RT cores, 160 TMUs and 64 ROPs compared to the full version TU104-400 on the RTX 2080. The number of GPC (Graphics Processing Clusters) varies between 5 and 6 depending on the chip and type of recovery. The card will have clock frequencies in the range of 1605 MHz (base clock) and 1770 MHz (boost) and can thus simultaneously deliver up to 9 TFLOPS computing power. The 40 RT cores can deliver about 7 giga-rays per second in ray tracing performance.

Like the RTX 2080, the RTX 2070 has super 4 MB L2 cache. Otherwise, everything I have already written in the launch articles for the GeForce RTX 2070 FE and the GeForce RTX 2060 FE applies. And if you want to find out more about all the RTX features in detail, please refer to my long basic article "Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 – what is really hidden behind Turing" on the subject of RT. This, too, is read-proof and certainly worthwhile.

The TU104-410 also receives the same 256-bit memory bus as the TU104-400, which has eight 1 GB GDDR6 memory modules with 14 Gb/s data rate, resulting in bandwidth of up to 448 GB/s. As with the GeForce RTX 2080, NVLink support is at least active with one link, which makes the card a little more attractive, because the RTX 2070 was not allowed to use this feature.

The 545 mm2 chip chip contains 13.6 billion transistors. Compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with its 12 billion Transistors on 471 mm2 may seem like a lot, but we must also remember that the chip is cropped and large parts lie fallow.

Unboxing and technical data

Compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 FE, the map also has a slight visual change, with the reflective surface on the cover being a great fingerprint file. As with the RTX 2080, the connectors rely on three DisplayPort ports and an HDMI 2.0 port. The USB Type-C jack is also at the start, NVLink is also available at the top of the board. The rest is as usual and for the details there is also the complete tear down.

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Back

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Slot Panel

Box

ISO

Here's a first look at the latest version of GPU-Z:

Instead of my own analysis, however, I have at least the technical data at a glance, for which one does not need any physically existing test objects:

Test system and measurement methods

I have described the test system and the methodology in the basic article "How we test graphics cards, as of February 2017 already in great detail and therefore for the sake of simplicity now only refer to this detailed description. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so. Since I am now testing independently here in Germany, the test system has also been upgraded again without having to take into account colleagues.

In this regard, I would like to express my thanks to MIFCOM in Munich, who provide us with the appropriate Intel CPUs, as Intel was and is not willing to sampling at all. For reasons of objectivity, we also accept only offers to which no substantive conditions are attached.

If you are interested, the summary in table form quickly provides a brief overview: